On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jim Sander wrote:
> > In the doc it mentions that cookies are not a reliable way to count visitors.
> > But is there any reason that number of unique session cookies won't give me
> > a minimum number of unique visitors?
>
> It's quite possible that somone could "force" cookies to you- the
> browser has complete control over them after all. They could simply figure
> out what a session-id looks like and set up a robot to hit your site and
> throw bogus cookies out. It's not reliable in that it can be faked out.
>
I'm not sure that's ALL that likely. But the following are very likely:
1) People refuse cookies. Unless you won't let them into your site (which
is also arguably skewing your statistics) you will not count them
properly.
2) People clear out their cookie cache. (jar??)
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